第一則：
A fourth-grade teacher was giving her pupils a lesson on logic.
Here is the situation, she said. A man is standing up in a boat in the middle of a river, fishing. He loses his balance, falls in, and begins splashing and yelling for help.
His wife hears the commotion, knows that he can't swim, and runs down to the bank. Why do you think she ran to the bank ?
A girl raised her hand and asked, to draw out all of his savings?
小學四年級的教師正在給學生們上一堂邏輯課。她舉了這麼一個例子：有這樣一種情況，一個男人在河中心的船上釣魚，突然失去重心掉進了水裏。於是他開始掙扎並喊救命。
他的妻子聽到了他的'喊聲，知道他並不會游泳，所以她就急忙跑向河岸。誰能告訴我這是爲什麼? 一個女生舉手答道，是不是去取他的存款?
第二則：
He is really somebody
-- My uncle has 1000 men under him.
-- He is really somebody. What does he do?
-- A maintenance man in a cemetery.
他真是一個大人物
-- 我叔叔下面有1000個人。
-- 他真是一個大人物。幹什麼的?
-- 墓地守墓人。
第三則：
I've Just Bitten My Tongue
"Are we poisonous?" the young snakeasked his mother. "Yes, dear," she replied - "Why do youask?" "Cause I've just bitten my tongue! "
我剛咬破自己的舌頭
“我們有毒嗎?”一個年幼的蛇問它的母親。 “是的，親愛的，”她回答說，“你問這個幹什麼?”“因爲我剛剛咬破自己的舌頭。”